Zoe Ball recalls ‘uncomfortable’ experience posing for lads’ mags at the start of her career
Zoe Ball says she was conditioned into posing for lads’ mags
- Zoe Ball has reflected on her "uncomfortable" experiences posing for lads' magazines like Loaded during the 1990s, while she was a presenter on Top of the Pops.
- She recalled being given "racks of tiny clothes" and told to "straddle a chair" for photoshoots, feeling “conditioned” into thinking it was normal.
- Ball stated that the "very male" environment of the "ladette" era meant she felt she had to "suck it up" and "play up to it".
- She expressed that she would be "furious" if her teenage daughter, Nelly, were asked to do similar photoshoots today.
- Many lads' magazines, including Loaded, Nuts, Zoo, and FHM, ceased print publication between 2014 and 2015 following feminist campaigns against them.